Improvement in paper and twine holders



B. F. EATON.

' 'Paper and Twine Holders.

Patented Dec:29,1874.

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NI'IED STATES PATENL BENJAMIN E. EATON, OF ALBANY, NEw YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER AND TWINE HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 58,203, dated December 29, 1874; application filed November 21, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. EATON, of Albany, in the State of New York, have ininvented an Improvement in Paper-Holding or more paper-cases with rolls of paper of dif-.

ferent widths or qualities may be inserted in the holder, and I use a twine holder and cut ter upon the frame. Thereby the holder is complete in itself, with all the appliances required in putting up packages or parcels.

In the drawing,Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section. Fig.2 is an elevation at one end of the frame and rolls, and Fig.3 is a section at the other end. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the end of the holder.

The frames at a are of ornamental shape, and

provided with a connecting top frame, 1), upon which is the twine-holder c, that is provided with a movable cover. (I, and an opening, 2, at one side for the string to be passed out. The twinecutter c is attached to the holder 0 or The cylindrical cases f and g are made with heads or ends h and 7c and movable sections at 4, forming the top portions of I flanges or supports 7* at the inner surfaces of the frames a, so that the cases may be lifted bodily out from the frames for inserting the roll of paper. There are lugs at the ends of the flanges 1", to keep the cases in place when they are inserted into their positions. Gontiguous to each month there is a rest, 8, for the paper. This may be of wood or metal, and it has an upper surface made of a strip of india-rubber or yielding material cemented into place; and it is preferable to sustain this rest at the ends by the arms 8 projecting from the ends of the cases or sides of the frame, to which arms the said rests are clamped or fastened, as at 9 9.

The tearing-straight edges or knives u c are preferably sustained by the frames 0!. a, and at each end a screw, 10, with a head forms the means for moving such knife to press its edges upon the paper while it is being torn off against such edge; and I remark that, by unscrewing these screws 10, the knives may be taken out for sharpening.

I claim as my invention- 1. The removable case for holding a roll of wrapping-paper, combined with a frame having ledges or flanges upon which such case rests, and a turning-knife supported by such frame, and against which the paper is torn, substantially as set forth.

2. The rest 8 for the paper, covered with a strip of rubber or yielding material, and the swinging knife arranged in relation to the removable paper-holdiug ease, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 18th day of November,

B. F. EATON. Witnesses GEO. T. PINcKNEY, (Inns. E. SMITH. 

